"More likely others would have died. Some wannabe hero pills out a gun in a panic filled crowded theater and tries to shoot one deranged individual. Even the best trained SWAT police would find it difficult to use a pistol in those circumstances."
you think it could have been worse then 12 killed and 71 wounded ? I doubt it, they could have shot him when he reloaded. look at that 71 year old guy in fla stopping those two guys. How many old they have killed ? how many did they zero.
That’s right before he points out the following, which is well beyond statistical naysaying:
In fact, research by economist and author John Lott and Bill Landes shows that states that allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns enjoy a 60 percent decrease in multiple-victim public shootings and a 78 percent decrease in victims per attack.
This is not to say the “debate is over,” since there can be nitpicking over statistical controls for urbanization, education, or other variables, like crack cocaine. But wait, even a critical paper published by the statist Brookings Institution admitted the following of John Lott’s work, while citing highly respected social scientist James Q. Wilson:
[C]riminologist James Q. Wilson calls Lott’s book [ More Guns, Less Crime] “the most scientific study ever done of these matters, using facts from 1977 through 1996 and controlling for just about every conceivable factor that might affect the criminal use of guns.” Wilson gives a ringing endorsement to Lott’s thesis:
“Lott’s work convinces me that the decrease in murder and robbery in states with shall-issue laws, even after controlling statistically for every other cause of crime reduction, is real and significant. Of the many scholars who were given Lott’s data and did their own analyses, most agree with his conclusions. States that passed these laws experienced sharp drops in murder, rape, robbery, and assault, even after allowing for the effects of poverty, unemployment, police arrest rates, and the like. States that did not pass these laws did not show comparable declines. And these declines were not trivial—he is writing about as many as 1,000 fewer murders and rapes and 10,000 fewer robberies. Carrying concealed guns reduces—it does not increase—the rate of serious crime, and that reduction is vastly greater than the generally trivial effect of gun-carrying on accidental shooting
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